Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took them through the cavernous littered kitchen , where an old woman in a grey shawl was mixing something in a basin on the table , and down the dark passage to the studio . |
| 2 | During the first years of the Federal Republic , from 1949 to 1953 , when the Right was staging something of a recovery , attempts had been made to distinguish between ‘ insane Hitlerism ’ and the positive aspects of National Socialism . |
| 3 | ‘ My first reaction was to get someone from the British Transport Police , but the door of their office was locked . |
| 4 | And the polite , formally suited African was writing something on a sheet of paper , to her instructions . |
| 5 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 6 | One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner . |
| 7 | The unattainable ideal woman was to become something of an obsession for Rider Haggard , idealised but hardly ideal , for the strange being he introduced in She was both good and evil , goddess and witch . |
| 8 | His first thought was to do something to the Volkswagen Passat . |
| 9 | Ramsey expected that once the resolution was taken everything in the mind would be peace after doubt . |
| 10 | We undressed and walked right through the shiny white-tiled shower room where a woman attendant was scrubbing someone with a loofah . |
| 11 | During the lengthy period when the story was running none of the major media outfits dealt seriously with the question of why the fleeing Kurds had ended up carpeting the mountainsides in misery . |
| 12 | To flash a badge was to risk someone in the crowd remembering his face and in the future , on another job , he could fingered as the stoolie he truly was . |
| 13 | In an atmosphere so heady with romance , in a climate so receptive to gothic detail and intricate workmanship , jewellery and its design were to enjoy something of a golden age . |
| 14 | He pulled Carla into his arms and closed his eyes , feeling a vast , directionless violence , as if his task were to kill everyone in the world and the problem was how to start . |